So I was reading things 'n' stuff on the internet (like I do) last week, and was greatly amused by the story of how a local Iowa politician -- a conservative one! -- lamented that being endorsed by the Koch brothers' Americans for Prosperity "was kind of like being endorsed by Charles Manson." My first reaction, of course, was sadness, a profound sorrow because I'll never be able to "elevate the conversation" as eloquently as that, even at Yer Wonkette, forever America's prudish convent of decorum. My second thought was, "What, did everyone run out of Hitler and Rosa Parks similes, so now we're moving along to Charles Manson?"
Manson and the Kochs are nothing alike. Manson doesn't have any money.
The image of the Koch brothers having wild sex with teenaged runaways is not something I want in my consciousness.
I think of Jay Gould or J.P. Morgan with a batshit crazy dad.
And made a large number of species extinct.